USA Today Interview with New Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen

USA Today has an interview with new Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen which includes his view of how Adobe hopes to “marry the power of the desktop with the Web” with applications developed with Adobe’s AIR. As a concrete illustration of the type of functionality an AIR app could provide, Narayen points to Apple’s iTunes:

Look at what (Apple’s) iTunes does, you never know when you’re online or offline. For the user, it’s a seamless experience. We want to overcome some of the barriers that exist with a browser, to let people access maps, recipes and sports scores, for instance, in an application that sits on your desktop.